Hexagram 30 · Lí (离) · Radiance

離：利貞。亨。畜牝牛，吉。

Lî indicates that, (in regard to what it denotes), it will be advantageous to be firm and correct, and that thus there will be free course and success. Let (its subject) also nourish (a docility like that of) the cow, and there will be good fortune.

初九：履錯然，敬之无咎。

The first line, undivided, shows one ready to move with confused steps. But he treads at the same time reverently, and there will be no mistake.

六二：黃離，元吉。

The second line, divided, shows its subject in his place in yellow. There will be great good fortune.

九三：日昃之離，不鼓缶而歌，則大耋之嗟，凶。

The third line, undivided, shows its subject in a position like that of the declining sun. Instead of playing on his instrument of earthenware, and singing to it, he utters the groans of an old man of eighty. There will be evil.

九四：突如其來如，焚如，死如，棄如。

The fourth line, undivided, shows the manner of its subject’s coming. How abrupt it is, as with fire, with death, to be rejected (by all)!

六五：出涕沱若，戚嗟若，吉。

The fifth line, divided, shows its subject as one with tears flowing in torrents, and groaning in sorrow. There will be good fortune.

上九：王用出征，有嘉折首，獲匪其醜，无咎。

The topmost line, undivided, shows the king employing its subject in his punitive expeditions. Achieving admirable (merit), he breaks (only) the chiefs (of the rebels). Where his prisoners were not their associates, he does not punish. There will be no error.